Dr. Christopher Kerr speaks at a 2015 TEDx event Buffalo, New York.
Dr. Christopher W. Kerr is the Chief Medical Officer at The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care, where he has worked since 1999. His background in research has evolved from bench science towards the human experience of illness as witnessed from the bedside, specifically patients’ dreams and visions at the end of life. Although medically ignored, these near universal experiences often provide comfort and meaning as well as insight into the life led and the death anticipated.
End-of-life dreams and visions have been documented through the ages, but there has often been a lack of understanding on the part of health care workers about their significance, said Dr. Christopher Kerr, chief medical officer at Hospice Buffalo. Kerr led a research team from the Palliative Care Institute in Cheektowaga, N.Y. in a long-term study on dreams and visions in the dying.